When seeking talent for your organization, it is critical to find employees who will add value to your company in the long term. While the traditional interview and background check offer some insight into individual applicants, it is still all too easy to select the wrong talent for your company. This can result in an ongoing cycle of short-term hires who either resign or are terminated, leaving you with an urgent need to fill positions on a regular basis. Not only is it time-consuming, but hiring a new employee is also expensive. In fact, the cost of hiring a new employee can easily reach thousands of dollars within the first few months.
Thanks to modern technology, hiring managers and recruiters are gaining a more accurate snapshot of the key performance indicators (KPIs) that can predict a quality candidate. Quality of hire is one of the most critical KPI metrics for recruiting and selecting ideal candidates for each position.
Quality of hire is the value that a new employee contributes to the overall success of your company in the long term. Considering the cost of hiring and training a new employee, it is no surprise that identifying quality hires is increasingly a priority for recruitment strategies. What is surprising is that so few companies use these metrics to determine whether their employees are creating value.
Employers' hesitance to use new hire value data in their recruitment and hiring strategies isn't for lack of interest. Most business owners understand the value of a good employee for the success of their company, but employers aren't sure how to establish reliable candidate ranking metrics and translate that information into a successful strategy. This is largely because, unlike cost of hire and time to fill metrics, quality of hire metrics are more unclear, and cannot be measured accurately in the short term.
Fortunately, a range of data-driven platforms like Crosschq are engineered to simplify your hiring process and improve your quality hires through detailed digital reference checks, dynamic recruitment, and improved data analytics.
According to LinkedIn, quality of hire metrics are one of the top five hiring metrics companies should be using to capture top talent in 2021. These metrics refer specifically to the quantifiable aspects of recruitment and hiring that reflect the value of employees to the company in the long term.
The most common quality of hire metrics include:
Although ranking hires relies heavily on employee performance, hiring manager satisfaction, and new hire fit, there are a number of other quality metrics that may be taken into consideration.
By tailoring these Quality of Hire measures to target the particular needs of your operation and the role in question, you can ensure that you have the most complete and accurate information needed to hire the most suitable applicants and retain key employees. The first step is to create a quality of hire index, as a reference point from which to calculate your success in improving quality hires.
Calculating the quality of hire of an individual during the hiring and training process is different from calculating it for your organization as a whole. However, both individual and company values are linked and offer unique and necessary insights for improving your hiring and recruitment strategies.
The fundamental calculation is:
The value for employee performance can be calculated using several factors, including:
By calculating the average of all factors on a constant rating scale, say 1 to 10, you can reliably measure the quality of individual new hires and their performance. You can also calculate the average of these scores among all of your new employees to establish your overall quality value for new hires.
While it can be tempting to focus on the individual new hires, your hiring manager's satisfaction plays a critical role in your company's quality of hire. Using periodic internal surveys, you can garner valuable information about the recruitment and hiring process. With a tailored hiring manager satisfaction survey, you can gauge:
This information is crucial to ensure continuous improvement of your recruitment process.
Choosing the right person for your organization is more than just measuring their performance, it is ensuring that they fit into the company seamlessly. When determining your new hire's fit within the company, consider the following:
Using individual scores from your new hires, hiring manager satisfaction surveys, and employee retention numbers, you can calculate the overall success of your recruitment process. By parsing the information based on recruitment tactics or specific timeframes, you can calculate the quality of hire for specific recruitment methods. In short, real-time data, such as what Crosschq can provide, for employee performance, retention, and manager satisfaction allows you to continuously refine your recruitment process and improve your quality hires.
These benchmarks refer to the ratings systems and indexes you put in place to evaluate your new hires. These benchmarks can include everything from employee goals and performance to manager satisfaction and company culture.
When this performance data is taken from multiple employees over the course of several months or years, you gain a more complete picture of the recruitment process. This quantified data allows you to adjust your recruitment and hiring strategies to reduce turnover, enhance employee engagement, and ultimately hire and retain the right talent for each position.
With a focus on quality hires, your organization is more likely to recruit top performers who will contribute significantly more to your company's overall productivity. By tracking the performance and contributions of your new hires, you can see which employees become top performers and tailor your recruitment accordingly.
Making improvements is a long-term goal that can take months or even years. Unlike more traditional hiring processes that focus on resumes and interviews, Quality of Hire processes focuses on improving your overall recruitment and hiring strategy. Ultimately, the goal is to ensure that the employees you hire are creating more value for the organization than they are earning. This means collecting both pre-hire and post-hire data, keeping your hiring workflow organized, and establishing common goals for your hiring managers.
Your recruitment strategy should incorporate pre-hire data such as:
Post-hire data is equally critical and includes:
Workload organization for your recruiters and hiring managers can help to streamline the process and enhance the productivity and efficiency of your recruitment activities. A streamlined workflow allows for quicker candidate selection by:
Improving your quality of hire means having all of your hiring managers on the same page when it comes to hiring and recruitment goals. Communication is key to establishing common goals, which in turn allow you to streamline operations for a faster, more efficient hiring process. Keep your hiring managers aligned with:
From pre-hire to post-hire improve and measure your quality of hire with Crosschq. Crosschq 360 talent acquisition software, Recruit candidate referral network, and data-driven Analytics will all help you establish a winning recruitment strategy.
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